Honeycomb
JULY 12, 2023
This post is part of a short series about my experience in the VP of Engineering role at Honeycomb. In February of 2020, I was promoted from Director of Engineering to Honeycomb’s first VP of Engineering. Not the plan I didn’t join Honeycomb with the goal of becoming an engineering executive.
Honeycomb
AUGUST 19, 2022
Or, the small crisis with engineering management. In 2018, Honeycomb co-founder & CTO Charity Majors wrote a blog post titled, “An Engineer’s Bill of Rights (and Responsibilities).” When it was originally posted, back in 2018, it was timely. That’s right: engineers have rights and responsibilities.
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CIO
AUGUST 31, 2023
Mentorship supports movement from college intern to VP of Application Engineering From day one as a college intern, Jason Burke was assigned a mentor to help him navigate his role. As VP of Engineering, Burke now leads multiple web and mobile development teams, as well as Discover’s customer delivery channels.
Gitprime
SEPTEMBER 30, 2019
In this Perspectives in Engineering interview series, engineering leaders talk about how to build, coach, and scale world-class technology teams. Saminda Wijegunawardena , VP of Engineering at Box, calls this increasing distance “abstraction.” And abstraction doesn’t just kill execution. “It
TechCrunch
AUGUST 10, 2022
In my past as an investor and in my present as a pitch coach, I have come across a surprising number of companies where someone who’s not part of the founder team is out there trying to raise money for the company. Hire the right people to build the company. Whatever you do, don’t run out of money.
Netlify
JANUARY 20, 2021
As such, the Netlify engineering organization has 2 clear and distinct tracks: you can advance into management, or you can advance as an individual contributor. Managers also hold a big part of the responsibility of driving a solid partnership with our product organization and helping the team solve for what the business needs to succeed.
Gitprime
MARCH 13, 2019
Every high-growth engineering organization eventually needs to address the challenges around restructuring teams, maintaining a productive culture, building resilient systems, and adjusting engineering processes. You are continually looking for that number, all the time,” Davis says.
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